Industry News
Gene technology regulator issues first licence
The Gene Technology Regulator, Dr Sue Meek, has announced that she has issued the first licence under the new Gene Technology Act to trial a genetically modified crop.
[ + ]X-rays scale atomic peaks
The University of Queensland's Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis and the Brisbane Surface Analysis Facility have joined forces to create and manage a $530,000 X-ray Diffraction Facility for the use of university and external researchers.
[ + ]Embryos hold clue to cancer puzzle
A London-based Australian scientist working on research illegal in Australia has made a breakthrough that could result in a cancer vaccine.
[ + ]Preserving pine's genetic heritage
CSIRO scientists are working against the clock to collect genetic information from one of the last remaining natural stands of radiata pine on the island of Guadalupe off the west coast of Mexico.
[ + ]Engineering joints and arteries
Scientists are building complete blood vessels and the inner surfaces of joints in their laboratories.
[ + ]Genetic basis for obsessive grooming
A gene involved in setting up the mammalian body plan also appears to control grooming behaviour in mice.
[ + ]Rewiring damaged brains
Recent research will, scientists hope, improve the human brain's ability to repair or reorganise itself after injury or disease, in infancy and eventually in adulthood.
[ + ]Space technology helps cancer fight
Scientists at the University of Leicester Space Research Centre in England have received an award from the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council (MRC) to further exploit technologies developed for space research in the detection and treatment of cancer.
[ + ]Hopes boosted for anti-cancer drugs
Fresh research could improve the action of anti-cancer drugs by keeping them inside tumour cells for longer.
[ + ]FASTS release top 10 issues for 2002
Professor Chris Fell, President of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS), has said it was time for the government to announce the second stage of its plans for science and technology.
[ + ]Bone marrow transplants or chemotherapy treatment
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and The University of Texas Anderson Cancer Centre have found that patients with the blood cancer chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had a 26% probability of long term survival when treated with chemotherapy compared to 40% when treated with bone marrow transplant.
[ + ]Depression linked to death in stem cell transplants
Researchers at the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (IBMTR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that patients with depressive symptoms six months after their transplant have three times higher risk of death by one year post-transplant than do non-depressed patients.
[ + ]Gene linked to sudden cardiac death identified
Researchers in the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) have cloned and identified the role of a regulatory gene that in the presence of underlying heart failure, appears culpable in the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heart beats, that can lead to sudden cardiac death.
[ + ]Protein linked to molecular transportation system
A protein linked to accumulation of harmful brain plaque in Alzheimer's patients has been shown in fruit flies and mice to be an important part of a molecular transportation system that moves signals and vital protein cargoes within the brain.
[ + ]Target for cancer chemotherapy
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, in conjunction with colleagues from Lund University in Sweden, have identified in the laboratory a target for cancer chemotherapy that could impact tumour formation and metastasis by inhibiting cell growth.
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